Making chains in the Cradley Heath district of the Black Country in the English Midlands. Women made the smaller sizes of chain. No.8 which had about 79 links per metre and weighed 2g took a woman a week to make 12. 7kg for which she might earn 25p....

In long chain wade British soldiers from the beach by the water , the last are you up to the neck , to prepare for their reception vessels . English magazines brought images of this type with the forming of typical Anglo-Saxon sailor and soldier Humor...

Ernst Boris Chain (1906-1979), German-born British biochemist. Chain, with Howard Florey, purified penicillin. He shared the 1945 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine with Florey and with Alexander Fleming who had first discovered the antibiotic.